The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-24

dftd this
TIE twelve-year-old son of A. N.
Chelf, of Leesburg, was killed yesterday
by a runaway horse.
j. NJ. Bars, of the law firm of Flem-
ing & Daniel, of Jacksonville, is in town
spending few days.
Miss Clara Belle Higgins, of George
town, is in the city, visiting Miss Belle
Gray, at the Bangor House.
f. T. Lane is taking stock, and the
clerks are so busy they can hardly
speak when a caller drops in.
Prof. f. Sulzner left yesterday for st.
Augustine. His many friends will be
sorry to hear of his departure.
The Thermometer at West End, yester-
day, registered as follows: Ia. m, 76';
p. M, So, rainy; 6 p. M, 49,.
Mr.. j. A. Wells, the corpulent meat
market man. says he still finds plenty of
people who are hungry for his fine beef.
Mr.. b. F. Barker was suddenly called
home yesterday by the illness of his
mother. His home is in South Carolina.
Messrs. Griffin & Parker are very busy
taking stock. They have a very large
stock and it will take them fully ten
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry French have
moved into the De Weston cottage,
where their many friends will be well
coined.
Paltaka can brag of one thing, and
that is, it has clean streets now, and since
the rain looks as though its face had
been scrubbed with soap.
The Palatka Gun Club held another of
their social shoots yesterday afternoon
and Judge Vertrees carried off the
honors in making the best score.
Mr.. Bob Jackson, of the Florida South
ern Railway, who has been quite sick
for some time past, has resumed his
arduous duties at the desk. His many
friends are glad to see him smile again.
AS fine an apple as was ever raised in
Mohawk Valley or Michigan orchard
is ON exhibition at Z. Cunneely's place
on Water street. 1t was grown on the
BittiiStS vi W.T. TOE III tiiS Clty.
Capt. Lucas barge is being pushed
along towards completion, which. when
built, will be mammoth in proportions,
and i'm the words of Cap, lit will be big
enough to haul all Palatka if they want
to CO." 1t will be just the thing for
moonlight dance on the silvery bosomed
ST. Johns.
Mr.. j. f. Becks, the popular butcher.
has purchased the market lately occu-
pied by Mr.. Ivers, on Lemon street.
which he will run in connection with
his other market for n short time. His
new and commodious place will be n
general market for our citizens, and is
now well stocked with choice beef, NUT
ton, pork, poultry, fish, etc.
There was quite an amusing little
scene ON Lemon street yesterday. The
object of the fun was a commercial tour
list from Jacksonville, who evidently had
been imbibing to greater extent than
he was able to navigate under. He got
up the street as far as Merriday's fruit
store, where he lost complete balance of
his head and turned out into the street
and started round in a ring. until finally
he gave up with the exclamation, "Oh,
Lord, can't go where l want to-"
The Board of Trade Is receiving let
tiers of inquiry as to the business done in
Palatka and the SURF ounding country.
every day. A letter was received quite
recently from gentleman in Newton,
Kan, inquiring about the broom manu-
facture in this State. After looking up
the statistics of the business done in that
line and the consumption of brooms, it
is found there were $1,000 brooms used
in this State in the last year. and the
greater portion of this article was ship
ped from the North. This is as fine an
opportunity as could be asked for that
line of manufacture. They are con-
tinually sending out statistics to en-
quiries.